Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is

It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.